1、专业八级-1026 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、PART LISTENING COM(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、SECTION A(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Complete the gap-filling task. Some of the gaps below may require a maximum of THREE words. Make sure the word (s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may refer to
2、your notes.With the explosion of excitement about the Internet, there seems to be another type of addiction that has invaded the human psyche. Internet addiction or computer addiction: what to name the phenomenon?1) Internet Addiction Disorder Some people seem to be too excited about the Interact.2)
3、 Computer Addiction Many people are attached only to their computers and dont care about the Internet.3) Cyberspace Addiction an addiction to (1) of experience created through computer engineering many subtypes with (2) some are game and competition oriented some fulfill more (3) some are an extensi
4、on of workaholicism. Normal enthusiasm and abnormal preoccupation: where to draw the line?1) Addictions can be healthy, unhealthy or a (4) healthy: an outlet for learning, creativity and self-expression unhealthy: serious disturbances in ones ability to function in (5) 2) With no official psychologi
5、cal or psychiatric diagnosis of an Internet or Computer Addiction, there are only definitions of the constellation of (6) that constitutes such addictions in different ways. Problematic addiction and healthy Internet use: the speakers premise1) problematic addiction: when they have (7) their cyber l
6、ife from face-to-face life2) healthy Internet use: (8) the face-to-face and cyberspace worlds3) “bringing in the real world“ an important principle for helping people who are addictively (9) in cyberspace a powerful tool for intervening with people who are addicted to (10) in cyberspace（分数：10.00）填空项
7、 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_三、SECTION B(总题数：1，分数：5.00)Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview.（分数：5.00）(1).What is the decor
8、ation of the East Room like?A. Its elaborate. B. Its simpler than past. C. Its nothing special. D. Its too plain.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Why do they use real roses according to Laura?A. Real roses are more flagrant.B. Real roses can show their social status.C. Real roses are flesh.D. Real roses can bet
9、ter show their love.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Whats Donna Greens main responsibility?A. To help decorate the White House.B. To do the White House Christmas card.C. To guide visitors to the White House during the Christmas.D. To illustrate the decorations of the White House.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The White
10、House during Christmas this year is very different in that _.A. its much prettierB. its more elegant C. everything is flesh and realD. everything is brand new（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Which of the following is NOT mentioned by Laura as something Americans have a difficult time doing?A. Criticizing Presid
11、ent Bush. B. Having family members deployed in Iraq. C. Worrying about their family members in Iraq. D. Watching American troops in Iraq.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.四、SECTION C(总题数：3，分数：5.00)Questions 6 to 7 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer th
12、e questions. Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).The Maersk Alabama is owned by _.A. Kenya B. Denmark C. America D. Somalia（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).According to Andrew Mwangura, how can the deadlock be resolved quickly?A. Denmarks . . Moller-Maersk contact with pirates directly.B. The crew disabled the
13、ship and overpowered the pirates.C. Give pirates enough money immediately.D. Use a lot of third parties to be part of the negotiation team.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.1.Question 8 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the
14、 news.Which of the following is NOT the result of Yahoos issue?A. Scott Thompson lost his position in the company.B. Ross Levinson took place of Scott Thompson.C. Mr. Loeb will be appointed a company director.D. The chief executive was found padding his academic credentials.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.Question
15、s 9 to 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.（分数：2.00）(1).The new taxes are used to _.A. sort out troubled firms B. pay for bailouts C. avoid the risk of each firms activitiesD. increase the emplo
16、yees pay（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).If governments want to raise more money, they can put in an additional tax on _ firstly.A. financial institutionsB. products of companiesC. profits of companiesD. employees salaries（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.五、PART READING COMPR(总题数：0，分数：0.00)六、TEXT A(总题数：1，分数：5.00)The newspaper m
17、ust provide for the reader the facts, unalloyed, unslanted, objectively selected facts. But in these days of complex news it must provide more; it must supply interpretation, the meaning of the facts. This is the most important assignment confronting American journalismto make clear to the reader th
18、e problems of the day, to make international news as understandable as community news, to recognize that there is no longer any such thing (with the possible exception of such scribbling as society and club news) as “local“ news, because any event in the international area has a local reaction in ma
19、npower draft, in economic strain, in terms, indeed, of our very way of life.There is in journalism a widespread view that when you embark on interpretation, you are entering choppy and dangerous waters, the swirling tides of opinion. This is nonsense.The opponents of interpretation insist that the w
20、riter and the editor shall confine themselves to the “facts“. This insistence raises two questions: what are the facts? And: are the bare facts enough?As to the first query, consider how a so-called “factual“ story comes about. The reporter collects, say, fifty facts; out of these fifty, his space a
21、llotment being necessarily restricted, he selects the ten, which he considers most important. This is Judgment Number One. Then he or his editor decides which of these ten facts shall constitute the lead of the piece. This is important decision because many readers do not proceed beyond the first pa
22、ragraph. This is Judgment Number Two. Then the night editor determines whether the article shall be presented on page one, where it has a large impact, or on page twenty-four, where it has little. Judgment Number Three.Thus, in the presentation of a so-called “factual“ or “objective!“ story, at leas
23、t three judgments are involved. And they are judgments not at all unlike those involved in interpretation, in which reporter and editor, calling upon their general backgronnd, and their “news neutralism“, arrive at a conclusion as to the significance of the news.The two areas of judgment, presentati
24、on of the news and its interpretation, are both objective rather than subjective processesas objective, that is, as any human being can be. (Note in passing: even though complete objectivity can never be achieved, nevertheless the ideal must always be the beacon on the murky news channels.) If an ed
25、itor is intent on slanting the news, he can do it in other ways and more effectively than by interpretation. He can do it by the selection of those facts that prop up his particular plea. Or he can do it by the pay he gives a story promoting it to page one or demoting it to page thirty.（分数：5.00）(1).
26、Readers expect all of the following from newspapers EXCEPT _.A. how to interpret newsB. interpretations of newsC. community newsD. international news（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).It can be inferred from the passage that _.A. news of local areas will no longer be reportedB. interpretation of news always invol
27、ves editors biasC. American journalism is in lack of objectivityD. there is a higher requirement for the content of news today（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What can be inferred about the opponents of interpretation?A. They have a higher requirement for the objectivity-of news than supporters do.B. They have
28、a narrow understanding of what facts mean.C. They doubt that news can be factual.D. They dont believe in the validity of interpreted news.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).In what way are presentation and interpretation of news alike?A. They are both subjective.B. They are both difficult to do.C. They both invol
29、ve judgments by reporters and editors.D. They both help keep the objectivity of news.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(5).The passage is mainly about _.A. how to select newsB. how to interpret newsC. requirements for news interpretationD. the objectivity of news interpretation（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.七、TEXT B(总题数：1，分数：5.00
30、)When I was 14 years old and very impressed with my teenage status, I set for myself a very special goalthat to differentiate me from my friends. My goal was a project that I undertook every day after school for several months. It began to when I stealthily made my way into the local elementary scho
31、olhorror of horrors should I be seen; I was now in junior high. I identified myself as a graduate of the elementary school, and being taken under wing by a favorite fifth grade teacher, I was given a small bundle from a locked storerooma bundle that I quickly dropped into a bag, lest anyone see me w
32、alking home with something from the “little kids“ school.I brought the bundle home proudly. I walked into the living room, and one by one, emptied the bag of basic reading books. They were thin books with colorful covers and large print. The words were monosyllabic and repetitive. I sat down to the
33、secret task at hand. “All fight,“ I said authoritatively to my 70-year-old grandmother, “today we begin our first reading lesson.“ For weeks afterwards, my grandmother and I sat patiently side by side roles reversed as she, with a bit of difficulty, sounded out every word, then read them again, piec
34、e by piece, until she understood the short sentences. When she slowly repeated the full sentence, we both would smile and clap our handsI felt so pound, so grown up.My grandmother was born in a rocky little Greece farming village where nothing much grew. She never had the time to go to school. As sh
35、e was the oldest child, she was expected to take care of her brother and sister, as well as the house and acclimating exceptions, and her father scratched out what little he could form from the soil. So, for my grandmother, schooling was out. But she had big plans for herself. She had heard about Am
36、erica. About how rich you could be. How people on the streets would offer you a dollar just to smell the flower you were carrying. About how everyone lived in nice housesnot stone huts on the side of mountainsand had nice clothes and time for school. So my grandmother made a decision at 14just a chi
37、ldto take a long and sickening 30-day sea voyage alone to the United States. After lying about her age to the passport officials, who would shake their heads vehemently at anyone under 16 leaving her family, and after giving her favorite gold earrings to her cousin, saying “In America, I will have a
38、ll the gold I want“, my young grandmother put herself on a ship. She landed in New York in 1916. No need to repeat the story of how it went for years. The streets were not made of gold. People werent interested in smelling flowers held by strangers. My grandmother was a foreigner. Alone. A young gir
39、l who worked hard doing piecework to earn money for meals. No leisure time, no new gold earringsand no school. She learned only enough English to help her in her daily business.English came slowly. My grandmother had never learned to read. She could make out a menu, but not a newspaper. She could re
40、ad a street sign, but not a shop directory. She could read only what she needed to read as, through the years, she married, had five daughters, and helped my grandfather with his restaurant. So when I was 14the same age that my grandmother was when she left her family, her country, and everything sh
41、e knewI took it upon myself to teach my grandmother something, something I already knew how to do. Something with which I could give back to her some of the things she had taught me. And it was slight repayment for all she taught me. How to cover the fig tree in tar paper so it could survive the win
42、ter. How to cultivate rose bushes and magnolia trees that thrived on her little piece of property. Best of all, she had taught me my ethnic heritage.First, we phonetically sounded out the alphabet. Then, we talked about vowelsEnglish is such a difficult language to learn. I hadnt even begun to expla
43、in the different sounds “gh“ could make. We were still at the basics. Every afternoon, we would sit in the living room, my grandmother with an afghan converting her knees, giving up her crocheting for her reading lesson. I, with the patience that can come only from love, slowly coached her from the
44、basic reader to the second-grade reader, giving up my telephone gossiping. Years later, my grandmother still hadnt learned quite enough to sit comfortably with a newspaper or magazine, but it felt awfully good to see her try. How we used to laugh at her pronunciation mistakes. She laughed more heart
45、ily than I. I never knew whether I should laugh. Here was this old woman slowly and carefully sounding out each word, moving her lips, not saying anything aloud until she was absolutely sure, and then, loudly, happily saying, “Look at spot. See Spot rim.“When my grandmother died and we faced the sad
46、 task of emptying her home, I was going through her night-table drawer and came upon the basic readers. I turned the pages slowly, remembering. I put them in a paper bag, and the next day returned them to the “little kids“ school. Maybe someday, some teenager will request them again, for the same ta
47、sk. I will make for a lifetime of memories.（分数：5.00）(1).The girl got books from _ to teach her grandmother.A. the local elementary schoolB. the libraryC. the bookstoreD. her own bookcase（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(2).Which of the following is not one of the reasons that her grandmother never went to school?A.
48、 She needed to take care of her brother and sister.B. She needed to take care of the house and acclimating exceptions.C. She had no time to go to school.D. She had an American dream.（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Ever since the girl took up the task to teach her grandmother, she had given up the habit of _.A.
49、 cultivating rose bushesB. reading adventurous storiesC. prattling on telephoneD. playing chess with her schoolmates（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.(4).How did the girl feel about the experience of teaching her grandmother?A. She was proud.B. She felt it a pleasant task.C. She treasured the special experience.D. All of the above.（分数：1.00
